Showing posts with label anarchy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anarchy. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Monday, May 18, 2026
What's punk got to do with Buddhism?
(Jacob DeSio Reviews) Ideology over aesthetics: To be without rulers: SLC Punk: Punks v Posers
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| It's my look, but maybe it'll be my ideology. |
The Dharmic traditions all lean towards liberation (moksha, vimutti = "freedom") and, as such, they did not really begin as "religions." They're treated as religions now, to be sure. The British colonizers imposed that way of thinking on the various dharmas or "doctrines" of India, the paths to freedom taught by famous awakening teachers. It's good to say "awakening" here instead of "awakened" because Buddhism does not recognize that everyone who is called "enlightened" actually is. What the Buddha meant by the term is very specific. In Buddhism, arahant (Sanskrit arhat) is reserved for seven kinds of livings beings (the "noble ones" or Aryans):
- stream enterer (three kinds of sotapannas):
- one-seeder (ekabijin)
- one who will be reborn at most seven times (sattakkhattuparama)
- one reborn among noble families three or four times (kolankola).
- once returner (sakkadagami)
- non-returner (anagami)
- fully awakened (arahant). One could say there are three kinds of arhats as well since in addition to being a "fully" awakened noble disciple, one might be a "non-teaching supremely enlightened person" (pacceka-buddha) or in extraordinarily rare instances, a "supremely enlightened teacher" (samma-sam-buddha).
- These descriptions are part of Early Buddhism, preserved in the Pali canon of Theravada Buddhism, specifically explained in The Path to Freedom (Vimutti-magga), condensed to just four kinds by lumping the three varieties of stream enterers into just one grouping in The Path of Purification (Visuddhi-magga). It seems that in these modern times, only Wisdom Quarterly cares about the distinction. Goodness knows that by borrowing from Brahmanism and Hinduism, later Mahayana movement writers have invented new categories like countless bodhisattvas, mahasattvas, and "Cosmic Buddhas" like Amitabbha, Vairocana, Ksitigarbha, and others to worship in place of taking guidance (sarana) from the historical Buddha Shakya-muni ("Sage of the Indo-Scythians/Sakas"), Siddhattha Gotama, Siddhartha Gautama.
But before actual stream entry (entering the "stream" or sota that inevitably leads to complete freedom = nirvana), there are practices and beliefs the Dharmic traditions have in common, like reaching samadhi ("stillness," "mental coherence" resulting in "superconsciousness," sublime states and transcendental realizations). In fact, many Indian traditions consider samadhi to be the ultimate goal, knowing nothing higher. The Buddha did certainly point higher, adding insight practices (vipassana) to the already known states of meditative absorptions (the dhyanas or in Pali jhanas).
Minor Threat: "I was early to finish. I was late to start. I might be an adult.
But I'm a minor at heart." Fugazi: I wait, I wait, I wait in the Waiting Room
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| The Eight Limbs of Yoga (Patanjali) |
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| Noble Eightfold Path (Dharma Wheel) | Zazzle |
SLC Punk: The movie that ended the "poser" who poses w/o being punk
PUNK has always been about individualism, questioning, rebellion, a willingness to set off on one's own path of investigation, practice, and self-realization. No one can do it for us, and "faith" (particularly of the blind sort) is just not in the cards.
PUNK is fun and, at least in the past, was very funny. It was not profit-driven. The goal from the beginning was freedom, personal and social, to liberate oneself and others. Maybe no one agreed on what a revolution would look like, but the enemy was pretty clear: sexist/racist cops working for the economic elite to maintain the status quo, gatekeepers, authority figures, bosses, dictators, know-it-alls, the forces of oppression bearing down on our pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
The founding ideals of our country never promised happiness, but those ideals did very clearly say we had a right to PURSUE happiness as we saw fit. In practice, it was nothing like that, just an Animal Farm/1984-style set of tricks, being told what to believe, how to behave, what to like, what to follow, and so on. Enough of that. The hippies were right, but they were no longer getting anywhere, so the pendulum had to swing the other way. Workers had to arise. Conservatives had to knock it off. Liberals had to wake up. Somebody had to flip off the patriarchy and its father figures.
The CIA, FBI, and PTB (powers that be) were not going to let this movement succeed any more than they had any of the previous ones. They can't stop these things, but they can guide them to implode. Movements are like that. What about individuals? What about intellectuals, poets, artists, and independent thinkers? The government has a game called whack-a-mole for that. They stop this rebellion or that, but another one will take its place. It's like Jello once said in "I Am the Owl." Black Flag had something to say beyond self-defeating aggression when they sang, "Rise Above." But the hippies had something to say, too. "What the world needs now is peace, love, and understanding" and, if not, then how about anarchy, hate, and profanities. How does that strike you, Society?
If England/Britain ruined us as a colony-cum-country, it had a little something to do with the rebellion:
(egi alams) The Germs: The More Dangerous Sounding Darby Crash
- Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly
When punk rock was fun and funny
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| Shanin Blake, starseed here from the Pleiades |
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| She's not famous, but I am!!! |
In 2011, when she was 17-years-old, Blake became pregnant with a daughter, whom she is currently raising as a single mother [5, 6]. Her daughter appears regularly on Blake's social media accounts. MUSIC CAREER: In 2019, Blake moved from Utah to San Diego, California, and established herself in the local music scene [7]. She recorded a song, "Stop, Wait a Minute," that year which became locally popular and led to her being covered in local media [7]. More
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Punk in the Park, Los Angeles (10/4-5)
Punk Buddhism? Brad Warner's Hardcore Zen
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| (Brad Warner explains the connection between punk rock and Zen Buddhism) |
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| Hardcore Zen (Wisdom Pubs) |
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| Brad's band Zero Defex (0DFX) in action |
Stash - Free Documentaries: @stash_freedocumentaries. #ZenBuddhism #BuddhistStory
PUNK IN THE PARK
Punk in the Park, North America’s premier outdoor punk rock and craft festival, returns to Southern California this Saturday, Oct. 4th and Sunday, Oct. 5th for two epic days of punk rock at the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
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| Punk Festival | Punk in the Park | San Pedro, CA |
Punk in the Park Los Angeles takes over Berth 46 at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro with 40+ bands on 3 stages, along with a Craft Festival, Punk Rock Swap Meet, and Vinyl Village.
Punk in the Park Los Angeles features headlining performances from Bad Religion and Pennywise (Saturday), Descendents and The Interrupters (Sunday), along with:
- Face To Face
- Screeching Weasel
- The Adicts
- Stiff Little Fingers
- Street Dogs
- Comeback Kid
- The Bronx
- The Casualties
- Michael McColgan & The Bomb Squad
- T.S.O.L.
- Adolescents
- Agent Orange
- Manic Hispanic
- Dead To Me
- Teenage Bottlerocket
- Authority Zero
- The Bombpops
- Dwarves
- The Aggrolites
- The Queers
- The Briggs
- Ignite
- Death By Stereo
- Spiritual Camp
- Niis
- Slaughterhouse
- The Drowns
- Left Alone
- Chaser
- Crazy & The Brains
- Love Canal
- DFL
- Grito
- Toxic Energy
- Terror Attack
- and more.
- (Denver7 News) Bands pull out of Denver's Punk in the Park festival over political donations
- Dates: Saturday, Oct. 4th & Sunday, Oct. 5th, 2025
- Doors open: Noon (12:00 pm)
- Location: Berth 46, 3011 Miner St., San Pedro, CA 90731
- General Admission tickets start at: $149.99 + fees
- VIP tickets start at: $279.99 + fees
- San Pedro, Los Angeles, California
- Oct. 4th and 5th, 2025 | Berth 46
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- Stash- Free Documentaries, Feb. 20, 2025; Punk Festival | Punk in the Park | United States
Friday, June 13, 2025
Happy B-day, Yeats: 'Second Coming' (poem)
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| Where are you going, sir? - Bethlehem. - But why, sir? - Don't worry about it. |
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He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and later served two terms as a senator of the Irish Free State.
He studied poetry from an early age, when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats, William Wordsworth, William Blake, and many others. More
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| Portrait by his father J. B. Yeats |
William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865–Jan. 28, 1939) is among the greats. Today is the commemoration of the Irish poet's birth.
Irish poet W. B. Yeats was a dramatist, writer, and literary critic who was one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
He was a driving force behind the Irish literary revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years.
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| Wm. Butler Yeats in 1923 |
A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland. His father practiced law and was a successful portrait painter (painting him at right). He was educated in Dublin and London and spent his childhood holidays in County Sligo.
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| Saint Issa on Roman cross |
He is remembered for many poems, perhaps most famous of which is this particularly poignant and prescient piece:
The Second Coming
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
How to convert Jews
Should Jews be forced to convert again?
- The Second Coming (poem)
- Yeats in Bedford Park, Chiswick's Local Web site
- W. B. Yeats; Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
Friday, April 4, 2025
Art of Punk Rock: Crass, DKs, Black Flag
(Bullet Train Productions) By Any Means: A Brief History of Black Flag (Part 1: 1976-1980)
Why do punk rockers feel drawn to Buddhism? It might be the anti-authority (as suggested by LA's Wasted Youth in their anthem "F Authority") stance of the Buddha who stood up to the religions of his day or the no heroes Zen ethos they imagine. Both modern punk and the ancient Dhamma were rebellious movements. Maybe they've read the Kalama Sutra and like the F.U. attitude they imagine it embodies.
Buddhism (the Awakened One's Dharma) doesn't really say "F.U.," but it does give license to free inquiry and questioning rather than blind faith or devotion to idols and authoritative sources. In the end, it's a kind of shamanism (direct experience) over temple-bound priests (intermediaries).
The Buddha did not ask people to "believe" or worship him but to come see the Truth for themselves. Enlightenment (bodhi, awakening) is open to any person willing to embark on a quest to directly know-and-see. This is a personally verifiable path. There is no waiting until we die to see if what we placed faith in panned out. No.
In San Francisco, MOCAtv corners founding Dead Kennedys member Jello Biafra (vocalist and frontman), who discusses his own warped inspiration for the many album sleeves and band posters created in the early days of the group.
Finally, it's time to meet up with master collage artist and designer of the DK symbol, Winston Smith, in his North Beach art studio and talk about how he was drawn into the early Bay Area punk scene -- and his long and creative artistic relationship with the Dead Kennedys and their smart frontman and clever vocalist Jello Biafra.
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| Hi, I'm Sydney Vicious. I do it my way! |
I did it my way, claims Sex Pistol Sid Vicious as if he were Frank Sin'
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| Never mind those bullocks. Clear the mind. |
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| What is real rebellion and freedom? |
This path-of-practice (not belief) is about the here and now; it is of immediate benefit, demonstrable: With this, that is; when this is not, that is not. What? Everything. Why? Because everything is Dependently Originated. So if we know-and-see become full of knowledge and wise on the path to Freedom, it is because we have practiced this and left that behind. If suffering (things sucking and disappointing) is a problem (as it is for most living beings), there is a solution right NOW in this moment.
(She Rocks Punk) Eve Libertine's first song with Crass was "Asylum," a
shocking anti-Christian, anti-patriarchal screed of vile and vulgar oopsies
The Art of Punk - Crass - The Art of Dave King and Gee Vaucher - Art + Music - MOCAtv
The Art of Punk - Dead Kennedys - The Art of Winston Smith - Art + Music - MOCAtv
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| DKs: 1986 Interview with Jello Biafra (SPIN) |
Back in Los Angeles, MOCAtv talks with pop surrealist artist Tim Biskup about how the DKs affected and twisted his own young mind, and Steve Olson graces the show with a few words of wisdom.
Remember our Holiday in Buddhist Cambodia after the US turned it to hell?
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| 10 best Dead Kennedys songs (Singers Room) |
Created, directed, and executive produced by writer/author of Fucked Up + Photocopied Bryan Ray Turcotte (Kill Your Idols), and Bo Bushnell (The Western Empire), The Art of Punk traces the roots of the punk movement and the artists behind the iconic logos of punk bands such as Black Flag (Raymond Pettibon), The Dead Kennedys (Winston Smith), and Crass (Dave King).
In addition to profiling artists, the series includes intimate interviews with former band members, notable artists, and celebrities who have been heavily influenced by the art of punk rock including Jello Biafra, Tim Biskup, Scott Campbell, Chuck Dukowski, bassist Flea (FEAR, RHCP), Steve Olson, Penny Rimbaud, Henry Rollins, Owen Thornton, and Gee Vaucher.
The filmmakers Bryan Ray Turcotte and Bo Bushnell take a unique approach to exploring the rich histories of these three seminal punk legends by focusing on the influential imagery and seeking out stories that have not been told yet through the artwork, which is integral to the importance and influence of each band.
On June 11, 2013, The Art of Punk debuts on MOCAtv with an episode on Raymond Pettibon and the artwork of Black Flag. The stories behind the art of the Dead Kennedys will debut on June 18, and June 25 will see the release of the Crass episode, all of which will be available at: mocatv.
Created by: Bryan Ray Turcotte (bryanraymond) KillYourIdols.com and Bo Bushnell (bobushnell) Instagram.com/BoBushnell bobushnell.com. Directed by: Bryan Ray Turcotte, Bo Bushnell. Executive producers: Emma Reevers, John Toba. Executive producers: Bryan Ray Turcotte, Bo Bushnell. Starring: Raymond Pettibon, Keith Morris, Chuck Dukowski, Henry Rollins, Flea. Camera: Josh Webber, Bo Bushnell, Jason Baker. Edited by: Tim Brooks, Beast. Editorial Assistant editor: Paul Jarolimekproner, Beast. Editorial location sound: Alexander Charles Eastmond. Motion graphic design: Brent Stangel. Music supervision: Beta Petrol. Music by: Raw Nerve. Theme music: Son the Father by Fucked Up Courtesy Beggars Group. Additional music by: C.R.A.S.H. Scanning by: Jesse Spears. Sound mixing: Phil Lantz M Squared Productions. Colorist: Tim Brooks. Photo stills provided by: Brian Tucker, Ed Colver, Ryan Richardson. Like MOCA on Facebook: bit.ly/MOCAFacebook, Twitter: bit.ly/MOCATwitter +1 MOCA on Google+: bit.ly/MOCAGooglePlus.
- Eve Libertine, Crass, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag artists via MOCAtv; Sydney, Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Is punk dead? The Punk Rock Museum
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| Sassy punk and failed politician Jack |
As for the question, Is punk dead? It never seemed to be until we saw our first "Punk's not dead" patch. Who said it was, and why give that idea more airtime? Of course, it's been decades since that happened, and now there's a museum, and if it is dead, "pop punk" killed it.
But how could it be dead if even the Sixties' hippie movement is not dead but lives on at Phish and other shows. The music survives, and the sentiment is strong. Punk rock really was about something, not least going against the stream. Noah Levine capitalized on this with his Dharma Punx book and a meditation and sobriety movement that aimed at turning that rebellion inward to something longer lasting than a fashion statement or general nihilistic attitude. Is it dead? Ask Russ Rankin, Finn McKenty, Punk Rock Girl, and Lorna Doom, and we'll let them be the arbiters.
Remembering The Germs and not forgetting 7 Seconds (F Your Amerika)
Punk Rock Museum?
It was code blue, um, code red when the legendary L.A. hardcore punk band (with OC Goth beginnings) played The Punk Rock Museum's March parking lot show.
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| There's next to no rock left on Los Angeles airwaves, just mostly dinosaur rock from KLOS FM. |
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It was an unforgettable day of music, an incredible event that featured five powerhouse bands, each bringing their unique energy and style. The legendary T.S.O.L. headlined, taking the stage to close out the evening in epic fashion. The show started with local Las Vegas trio The Dollheads, followed by the high-energy Knuckleheadz, and the electrifying Playboy Manbaby, and the Voodoo Glow Skulls.
Tickets got fans into the show and into the museum, too (entrance fee included). The first 80 who arrived got seating to watch a round table discussion that started at 12:30 pm, moderated by the legendary George Stroumboulopolous in a riveting, in-depth conversation, exploring the global cultural impact of punk, featuring Fat Mike, Kevin Lyman, T.S.O.L's Jack Grisham, photographer Edward Colver, Vinnie Fiorello, and Jennifer Finch. It was an action-packed day!
THE PUNK ROCK MUSEUM
Never Mind the Bollocks, here’s The Punk Rock Museum! It’s been 45+ years since punk rock pogo’d its way into music, fashion, film, and popular culture. On April 1st, 2023, The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas opened its doors to proudly shove in our faces the history, culture, and absurdity of rock n’ roll’s bastard stepchild. This museum invites lifelong fans and curious looky-loos of all ages to experience a hands-on and uniquely punk rock experience.
Sex Pistols "Anarchy in the UK" and eventually worldwide
March 30, 2025: Edward Colver: The Eye of Los Angeles Punk exhibition (opening reception)
Edward Colver has immortalized some of the most iconic figures of the 20th century through his striking photography. Best known for his raw and electrifying images of the early punk scene, Colver’s work captures the energy, rebellion, and spirit of a movement that reshaped music, fashion, and art in Los Angeles. His photographs are more than just visuals—they are cultural artifacts that document the birth and evolution of punk.
While his legacy is deeply tied to punk rock, Colver’s career extends far beyond, spanning a diverse range of subjects and artistic expressions.
Renowned photographer Edward Colver captured Los Angeles punk rock at its inception. His iconic photographs chronicle the heartbeat of the movement. By the end of 1983, he had provided the cover art for many L.A. punk records like:
- Circle Jerks,
- T.S.O.L,
- Dead Kennedys,
- Black Flag,
- Social Distortion,
- X,
- Adolescents,
- Bad Religion,
- Minor Threat,
- FEAR,
- and Christian Death to name just a few.
- Sydney, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Guest Jack Grisham, Host Frank Kramer, Kiss @$$ Heidi Hamiliton (H&F Show, April 4, 2025, final hour 9:00-10:00 am)
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